LEE 
Foou’s Cress. A weil-nformed correspondent 
at Leigh (Dorset) gives me this as 2 local name 
for the Watercress, Radicula nasturtium, but I 
think there must be some confusion. See BROoK- 
LIME (2). Mr. W. S. Price (Wellington) tells 
me he has frequently heard this name applied 
to Brooklime in order to distinguish it from the 
edible Water-cress. 
Foou’s PARSLEY. This is the general English 
name for Aihusa Cynapium, sometimes called the 
Lesser Hemlock. In “ Flowering Plants,’ by 
Anne Pratt, revised by Edward Step, it is recorded 
that some years ago two ladies in Somersetshire, 
who ate of it in salad, suffered very scriously, 
though both ultimately recovered. Several cor- 
respondents give this name as being applied to 
Hemlock, Wild Beaked Parsley, Cow Parsley, 
Hedge Parsley, and other Umbeliifere, but 
probably in most cases they really mean the 
plant mentioned above, and I have not thought it 
necessary to set out the names of other plants 
separately. 
Foont’s WaATERCRESS. Procumbent Marsh- 
wort, Apium nodiflorum. See BRook LIME (2). 
FORGET-ME-NoT. (1) Anyspecies of Scorpiox, 
grass, Myosotis; but more particularly the 
Water Scorpion-grass, MM. scorpioides, which 
grows on the banks of streams. I believe 
it was less than 100 years ago that this name was 
first given to this genas of plants in England, 
althougr it was the popular name for them in 
Germany and Denmark. It was in coausequence 
of the remarkable popularity gained by the now 
well-known German legend of a knight and his 
lady love, published about a century ago by 
Mill» in his ‘“ Origin of Chivalry,” that this 
name was given to the Myosotis in England. 
(2) De. Prior tells us that for more tha. 200 
years previous to the iatrodaction of this German 
legend, the plant which had borne in England 
the name of Forget-me-not was the Ground Pine, 
Ajuga Chamepitys, which also bore in Franze 
and the Netberland; a popular name having the 
sare meaning, which was said to have been 
givea in consequence of the nauseous taste which 
it leaves in the mouth. 
(3) Correspondents in different parts of each 
of the four counties apply the name to the 
Germander Speedwell, Veronica Chamecedrys, 
more generally known as Birp’s Eyes. Dr. Prior 
says this is owing to a confusion originating in 
the blue colour of the flowers, but what appears 
to me to be a much more probable explanation is 
that given under the vame SPEEDWELL. 
FOUR-LEAVED Grass. Herb Paris, Paris 
quadrifolia, 
Four 0’CLock. Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale 
(Stoke-under-Ham and Axmiister). Called also 
TWELVE O’CLOCK and ONE 0’CLOCK. 
